How did we decide what Christ looked like?
Frank Kermode: How Jesus Got His Face, 27 April 2000
The Image of Christ
edited by Gabriele Finaldi.
National Gallery, 224 pp., £14.95, February 2000,1 85709 292 9 Show More
edited by Gabriele Finaldi.
National Gallery, 224 pp., £14.95, February 2000,
“... This National Gallery exhibition has a catalogue of extraordinary splendour and is accompanied by four programmes on BBC2’s new Art Zone slot. In the Gallery itself there are further aids to understanding in the form of a film show, CD-Roms and audiotapes. A BBC book accompanies the series, and Neil MacGregor, the indefatigable director of the Gallery, not only does the TV presentations but is making a hectic lecture tour (Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Belfast: admission free ... ”
